Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time the information contained in the audited accounts would be so out of date that it would not reasonably be foreseen as the basis for a business judgment concerning the extension of credit to Berg or the discounting of bills . |
| 2 | The inquiry report also said he appeared to have sprinted off the track for his own safety a finding strongly challenged by course officials . |
| 3 | The inquiry report also said he appeared to have sprinted off the track for his own safety a finding strongly challenged by course officials . |
| 4 | It was a diamond shape , flown as the Flexi-kite for some years before the patent application was made , and it heralded the concept of a lifting surface with two cones which could be controlled as a parachute or kite . |
| 5 | It was announced yesterday that Oberstdorf , Germany , has withdrawn as the site for the 1994 World Championships . |
| 6 | Every time that it comes to capping regulations , those same authorities are blamed and pilloried for the spending for which Ministers have happily claimed the credit . |
| 7 | Seven miles to the south are the Veterinary Field Station , University Farms and the Bush Research estate ( designated as the focus for the UK 's first ‘ Technopole ’ or Research & Development ‘ Science City ’ ) . |
| 8 | The doctrine of consideration provides that a promise will bind the promisor only if it is given as the price for another 's promise or as the price for an action which involves a detriment to the promisee . |
| 9 | The unstable situation in Georgia , the main transport route to Armenia since Azerbaijan 's economic blockade of Armenia in November 1991 , was given as the reason for the appeal , which was also seen as a veiled challenge to Turkey to prove its neutrality in the conflict . |
| 10 | For in 1918 he just missed a scholarship to Winchester College ; and in those days the scholarship at Winchester was regarded as the crown for the cleverest boys in England . |
| 11 | As already noted , the twofold consequence is that B is regarded as the depositor for the purpose of receiving compensation and also for the purpose of the definition of protected deposit in section 60 . |
| 12 | This phrase must be regarded as the starting-point for analysis rather than as an explanation . |
| 13 | It seems likely that a forty-foot width was regarded as the minimum for an unsurfaced road , allowing for detours as the winter went on , but when scientific roadmaking began these great widths were no longer necessary . |
| 14 | This type of community work with refugees is in many ways similar to the organization of the controlled zones and is regarded as the basis for a future development model after the triumph of the FDR-FMLN . |
| 15 | The agreement on troop withdrawal was to be regarded as the basis for a future treaty on the issue . |
| 16 | PageMaker shipped 30,000 units in its first year and has now become regarded as the benchmark for today 's competitors . |
| 17 | If a person imports a product , in the course of business , into a country belonging to the European Community from outside the Community in order to supply the product to another , then that importer will be regarded as the producer for the purposes of determining liability by section 2 of the Act . |
| 18 | Karlinsky 's visit could almost be regarded as the signal for the journey to commence . |
| 19 | Here too she must offer a sin offering and a burnt offering as atonement , preferably a young lamb and a turtledove , although a second turtledove can be substituted for the lamb for poor women ( Lev . |
| 20 | Retired accountant Mr Collins was nominated for the honour for being a true pillar of his community , the village of Wrington , near Bristol . |
| 21 | Room 4.17 has been nominated as the place for the delivery of nominations and withdrawals . |
| 22 | Preserved in its original Assam Bengal Railway livery , this locomotive clocked some 1,186,000 miles over the Eastern Region metre gauge track , which is claimed as the record for any locomotive in Bengal another great Darlington achievement . |
| 23 | The main significance claimed for the market for corporate control as an efficiency- inducing device is not so much that companies are actually taken-over and inadequate managements displaced , though of course this does happen and is regarded as a valuable effect of the mechanism , but that incumbent managements fear take-over and hence will do all they can to make the company efficient and the share price correspondingly high . |
| 24 | He argues ‘ though God exists totally outside of culture , while humans exist totally within culture , God chooses the cultural milieu in which humans are immersed as the arena for his interaction with people ’ ( Kraft 1979:114 ) . |
| 25 | I I just did n't understand it that 's come for the advice for you see . |
| 26 | That was discarded as the justification for the poll tax . |
| 27 | For the moment detectives are stumped for the reason for the attack . |
| 28 | For the mnoment detectives are stumped for the reason for the attack . |
| 29 | Charles Manson was not merely a symptom of the drug age ; he was the epitome of a certain sickness that gripped some sections of society , by whom he was exalted as the inspiration for the killing of so-called pigs , the word daubed in blood on the living-room walls of director Roman Polanski 's home , after the so-called Sharon Tate murders , for which the bearded prophet of the drug age is still serving life . |
| 30 | I had met Chris and Nick at Bush House to be interviewed about the anniversary for the World Service ; it was important because of the possibility that John or his kidnappers might be listening and I was very nervous , even more so when I arrived late to discover that the interview was live . |